Miss Brown's Technology Showcase
My Michigan State University's Master of Arts in Educational Technology Program Journey...
Summer 2009
CEP810: Teaching for Understanding with Computers
Instructor: Carolyn McCarthy
*Course Focus: Effectively integrate and create a more efficient classroom environment as a result of effectively exploring and critiquing skills related to the following programs
Instructor: Carolyn McCarthy
*Course Focus: Effectively integrate and create a more efficient classroom environment as a result of effectively exploring and critiquing skills related to the following programs
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Power Point
- Internet Safety and Security
- RSS Feeds and Readers
- And, more...
Click the image to the left to view a screen shot of the NetVibes RSS Feeds/Reader I created.
Click the image to the left to view a Power Point completed by six individuals utilizing Google cloud collaborative resources.
CEP811: Adapting Innovative Technology to Education
Instructor: Susan Wright
*Course Focus: Discovered the enhanced impact that the effective use of popular Web 2.0 technologies, such as the following, can have on the transmission of required curriculum and pertinent parent/teacher information
Instructor: Susan Wright
*Course Focus: Discovered the enhanced impact that the effective use of popular Web 2.0 technologies, such as the following, can have on the transmission of required curriculum and pertinent parent/teacher information
- Instructional principles and methods to educational problems
- Web Site Design
- WebQuest
- Advanced Power Point
- Blogs
- Web 2.0 Technologies
- And, more...
Click the image to the left to visit my Website. Please explore each tab that was completed in order to fulfill the various requirements of the course.
Click the image to the left to navigate the Power Point Kiosk that was created to allow students to interactively learn and practice their knowledge about Conjunctions.
Fall 2009
CEP812: Apply Educational Technology to Problems
Instructor: Carolyn McCarthy
*Course Focus: Explored the applications of technology in K-12 settings, in order to...
Instructor: Carolyn McCarthy
*Course Focus: Explored the applications of technology in K-12 settings, in order to...
- Develop, present, and evaluate potentially fundable plans for the implementation of technology in educational/training settings.
- Explore Social Bookmarking
- Create Pod-casts
- Draft technology plans (Personal, School, State and National)
- And, more...
Click on the image to the left to listen to the Podcast created.
Click on the image to the left to visit my Website and read my Technology Plan.
Summer 2010
CEP800: Learn School & Other Settings
Instructor: Ammon Wilcken & Barbara Thelamour
*Course Focus: Explored learning as active, socially-mediated construction of knowledge in school, home, community, and work settings. Explored the following questions:
Sample Course Work...
Instructor: Ammon Wilcken & Barbara Thelamour
*Course Focus: Explored learning as active, socially-mediated construction of knowledge in school, home, community, and work settings. Explored the following questions:
- What is learned,
- How it is taught and learned, and
- What learners bring to the setting.
Sample Course Work...
Click the image to the left to listen to the Podcast created.
Click the image below to view the YouTube clip of the Digital Story Telling accumulative project.
CEP820: Teaching K-12 Students Online
Instructor: Laeeq Khan
*Course Focus:
Instructor: Laeeq Khan
*Course Focus:
- Examine ways K-12 teachers can bring the world into the classroom with technology to better meet the educational needs of students.
- Develop ways teachers and students can broadcast their ideas and information to the outside world for purposes of collaboration and communication.
- Presents various online learning management systems including their functions, strengths, and weaknesses along with the exploration of various teaching methodologies and how they should be used in the online environment to ensure teaching and learning success.
Click the image to the left to visit my MOODLE online Learning Managing System.
CEP822: Approaches to Educational Research
Instructor: David Wong
*Course Description:
Instructor: David Wong
*Course Description:
- Develop alternative methods of educational research.
- Identify researchable problems in education and develop a research proposal.
- Apply descriptive and inferential statistics to analyze and critique published studies.
Click the image to the left to read the final research essay written after extensive research was conducted on the validity and effectiveness of Literature Circles in the classroom.
Fall 2010
CEP818: Creativity in Teaching & Learning
Instructor: Punya Mishra & Kristen Kereluik
*Course Focus:
Instructor: Punya Mishra & Kristen Kereluik
*Course Focus:
- Explore several ideas and concepts revolving around creativity in education (i.e.: how it looks, how it is assessed, how it fits into the educational paradigm, and more).
Click the image to the left to explore the major assignments completed that will help in fuse an educational environment to become rich with creativity and imagination.
Spring 2011
CEP813: Electronic Portfolios
Instructor: Patrick Dickson & Denice Leach
*Course Focus:
Instructor: Patrick Dickson & Denice Leach
*Course Focus:
- Discover how electronic portfolios on the Web offer teachers and students an extraordinary new medium for self-expression and for creating a nation of writers, poets, and artists who gather authentic work over time and share it with a worldwide audience.
- Learn about the wide variety of meanings and applications of electronic portfolios in education.
- Apply what is learned by creating an electronic portfolio on the Web.
- The course exists in two parts: learning and doing.
Clicking the image to the left, you will view the electronic portfolio began as in CEP813 project. Please feel free to continue to explore it to glean a well-rounded understanding of "Miss Brown".
CEP815: Technology & Leadership
Instructor: Nick Sheltrown
*Course Focus:
Instructor: Nick Sheltrown
*Course Focus:
- Examine the complex charge of being responsible for managing relationships between technology, teaching and learning.
- Analyze technology from multiple perspectives to assess its potential benefits and challenges to different audiences.
- Examine professional development strategies, project management, planning, evaluation, relationship building, along with the ethical and social implications of technology integration.
Click the image to the left to enlarge a poster created to illustrate one aspect of leadership.
Click the image below to navigate through the accumulative project completed to demonstrate a number of leadership theories combined to develop a new way to facilitate learning rich with Technology, Pedagogy, Content, and Knowledge.
Summer 2011
CEP807: Proseminar Educational Technology
Instructor: Matthew J. Koehler, Penny Thompson, Mete Akcaoglu, Ammon Wilcken, and Denice Leach
*Course Focus:
Instructor: Matthew J. Koehler, Penny Thompson, Mete Akcaoglu, Ammon Wilcken, and Denice Leach
*Course Focus:
- Analyzing perspectives on educational technology,
- Current theories,
- Research findings,
- Methods of design, and
- Evaluation.
*All "Course Focus" descriptions are adaptations from Michigan State University instructors' syllabi and Michigan State University's website.